Second Banana

In Infocom's text-adventure Planetfall, Floyd is the damnedest little annoying robot: He runs, he hums, and he asks you to play Chase-and-Tag. Chuck Wendig pens his paean to Floyd because he makes you feel.

When playing a party-based RPG, your companions are equivalent to sidekicks, moving along the story and providing color. Peter Parrish tells us of one of the most unique characters in recent memory, the planet Democratus.